E326/8/14/49

Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carriages 4 wheel carriages Private: one carriage Private: two carriages Private: three + carriages Duty 10%
28 Jun 1791 Mrs Fairbairn vintr. [vintner] for hyre 3 3 £21.0.0 £2.2.0
Robert Roughead vintr. [vintner] for hyre 1 1 £7.0.0 £0.14.0
Dr. [Doctor] Richard Sommer priv. [private] use 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
John Clerk junr. [junior] vintr. [vintner] for hyre 3 3 £21.0.0 £2.2.0
8 7 1 £57.0.0 £5.14.0
Proof 7 Carriages at £7.0.0 is £49.0.0
Proof 1 Carriage at £8.0.0 is £8.0.0
£57.0.0
and 10 p. cent [per cent] on £57.0.0 is £5.14.0
amounting in all to £62.14.0 Ster. [Sterling]

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Survey of the WHEEL-CARRIAGE TAX in the Royalty of
Haddington from 5 April 1791 to 5 April 1792 by William Johnstone Survyr. [Surveyor]

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I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find
the foregoing duties amount to Sixty two pounds fourteen shillings Sterling and that upon the 26th
October 1791 I delivered to John Carfrae Collector of these duties an exact duplicate of this ac:
:compt duely examined & compared which contained my Oath That the preceeding Inhabi:
:tants were duely served with requisitions And that they were charged in conformity to their
several returns Or according to my knowledge & belief that they were liable in said duties.

William Johnstone Surveyor

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